Nutrition Week One Vocabulary [2026]
Nutrition Week One Vocabulary
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1. diet usual pattern of food choices
2. Nurtients chemicals necessary for proper body function
3. nutrition scientific study of nutrients and how the body uses them
4. Chemistry study of the composition and characteristics of matter and changes that occur to
it.
5. cell smallest living functional unit in an organism
6. metabolism total of all chemical processes that occur in living cells
7. essential nutrient nutrient that must be supplied by food
8. deficiency dis- state of health that occurs when a nutrient is missing from the diet
ease
9. The six classes of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water
nutrients are:
10. key functions of energy
carbohydrates
11. key functions of energy, physical growth and development
lipids
12. key functions of production of structural and functional components: cellular growth, development,
proteins and maintenance
13. key functions of regulation of body processes, does not suppy energy to the human body.
vitamins
14. key functions of regulation of body processes: structural and functional components
minerals
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Nutrition Week One Vocabulary
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_9yfthh
1. diet usual pattern of food choices
2. Nurtients chemicals necessary for proper body function
3. nutrition scientific study of nutrients and how the body uses them
4. Chemistry study of the composition and characteristics of matter and changes that occur to
it.
5. cell smallest living functional unit in an organism
6. metabolism total of all chemical processes that occur in living cells
7. essential nutrient nutrient that must be supplied by food
8. deficiency dis- state of health that occurs when a nutrient is missing from the diet
ease
9. The six classes of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, water
nutrients are:
10. key functions of energy
carbohydrates
11. key functions of energy, physical growth and development
lipids
12. key functions of production of structural and functional components: cellular growth, development,
proteins and maintenance
13. key functions of regulation of body processes, does not suppy energy to the human body.
vitamins
14. key functions of regulation of body processes: structural and functional components
minerals
1/2
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